Jensen Huang: $500 K/yr engineer should be consuming at least $250,000 of AI tokens

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An “AI token” is a measure of the amount of “compute time” consumed by the stable of AI agents the engineer will be managing to do his job.

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{{ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said previously that AI tokens could be a form of [universal basic income. }}

I was doing this 40 years ago. I’d get to my office in the morning, “salt the area” with a cup of coffee and open the drawers on a few file cabinets. Then tread a 40 pound box of paper into the dot-matrix printer in my office and run a several hour long print job.

Then I’d disappear until lunch.

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I just left using GPT for Claude. No clue how many AI tokens I was using.

The cost of computing rising is not a good game plan. I take it the cost is rising.

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Doesn’t your monthly bill show you how many you are using?

Jensen Huang says he would be ‘deeply alarmed’ if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokens

Of course he would be “deeply alarmed”, his business model depends on selling more and more machines that run those tokens!

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I am on the free level. I went to the dashboard and zip. No indication of usage.

Claude is better. I just did my first programming job on a component. It took 35 minutes. The instructions were clearer. When I asked questions, the answers were clearer. The result had no bugs.

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This seems the equivalent of judging your salespeople by how many miles they’ve driven rather than how many contracts they’ve brought in.

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